Blue Harbor Acquires U.S. Distribution Rights to Historical Biopic ‘Audrey’s Children’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Lauren Coates Blue Harbor Entertainment has acquired the Stateside distribution rights to Ami Canaan Mann’s “Audrey’s Children,” which will be released nationwide March 28.

Based on a true story, the historical drama stars Natalie Dormer as British physician Dr. Audrey Evans, who “burst onto the scene in 1969 as the first female Chief of Oncology at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.” According to the film’s synopsis, “Audrey’s Children” follows Evans as she “battles sexism, medical conventions, and the subterfuge of her peers,” eventually developing the first Neuroblastoma Staging System, co-founding the first Ronald McDonald House for families of patients, and impacting the lives of millions of children around the world.

After years of collaborating and supporting the film, Evans died two weeks into the start of physical production. “Dr. Evans was a force of nature, determined and tenacious.

And always with the well-being of children at the forefront of everything she did,” said Mann. “She’s a lodestar, really, of how to walk through the world.